Adam Schiff Exposes Jim Jordan For Plot To Thwart Law & Order

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Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) spoke out again in recent days to criticize some of the latest purportedly investigative moves from Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who with two other Republicans leading House committees in this Congress has been targeting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over the locally elected prosecutor’s criminal investigation of Trump.

After an initial response from Bragg’s office to wide-reaching demands from Jordan and the other Republicans that was largely dismissive, the GOP members sent another letter restating their demands and rejecting arguments raised by a lawyer for Bragg’s team, including that the Congressmen’s work threatened the legally established separation of powers between the federal government and the states. “Jim Jordan’s latest missive to the Manhattan DA is little more than a demand for discovery,” Schiff wrote on Twitter. “In a criminal case that has yet to be charged. On behalf of a client he does not represent. Masquerading as an explanation of legislative purpose. It fools no one.”

In this context, discovery refers to the ordinary period ahead of trial in which parties to the case have the opportunity to assemble relevant evidence, including from the other side.

In the follow-up letter from Jordan and the other Republicans, they cited potential legislation like a measure to largely shield ex-presidents from the kind of criminal case Trump could end up facing in Manhattan and an interest in potential restrictions on what would seem to be at least the usage of work from special counsels, since Bragg’s probe connects to an area also covered by Robert Mueller’s investigation. Jordan and his colleagues even cited the federal interest in ensuring the physical safety of former presidents, although there has already been talk of security coordination should Trump be indicted among the actually relevant stakeholders — rather than overzealous Republicans trying to join a conversation to which they’re not a party and that was already happening.

The Republicans also insist upon tying Bragg’s work to political motivations. As she built a civil case against Trump and his business, similar allegations against New York state Attorney General Letitia James have repeatedly been rejected in court — although it’s not like such a development has stopped Trump from nonetheless raising similar arguments.